Null revisited (briefly)

[Mark Nagel]

In article <1783 at dlvax2.datlog.co.uk>, scm at datlog ( Steve Mawer ) writes:
|In article <10138 at socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> diamond at diamond. (Norman Diamond) writes:
|>
|>When you assign 'x' to a character, you are assigning an int to a
|>character.  The reader knows that the type mismatch was intentional.
|
|Not if he knows the C language.  A single character written within
|single quotes is a *character constant*.  This isn't an int.

If you knew the C language, you'd know that a character constant *is*
an integer.  See K&R page 17 and 35.

Mark Nagel @ UC Irvine, Dept of Info and Comp Sci
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